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Oslund, Eric L.; Clemens, Nathan H.; Simmons, Deborah C.; Simmons, Leslie E. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
The current study examined statistically significant differences between struggling and adequate readers using a multicomponent model of reading comprehension in 796 sixth through eighth graders, with a primary focus on word reading and vocabulary. Path analyses and Wald tests were used to investigate the direct and indirect relations of word…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Reading Comprehension, Statistical Analysis, Comparative Analysis
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Bowyer-Crane, Claudine; Fricke, Silke; Schaefer, Blanca; Lervåg, Arne; Hulme, Charles – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
Many children learning English as an additional language (EAL) show reading comprehension difficulties despite adequate decoding. However, the relationship between early language and reading comprehension in this group is not fully understood. The language and literacy skills of 80 children learning English from diverse language backgrounds and 80…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension
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Frijters, Jan C.; Lovett, Maureen W.; Sevcik, Rose A.; Morris, Robin D. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2013
The results from controlled intervention research have indicated that effective reading interventions exist for children with reading difficulties. Effect sizes for older struggling readers, however, typically have not matched the large effects demonstrated with younger children. Standardized effect sizes for intervention/control comparisons…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Instruction, Control Groups, Reading Difficulties
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Kim, Young-Suk; Pallante, Daniel – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
This study investigated predictors of word reading and reading comprehension skills using longitudinal data from Spanish-speaking kindergartners (N = 163) and first grade students (N = 305) from high SES families in Chile. Individual differences in letter-naming fluency and phonemic segmentation fluency, but not vocabulary, were positive…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Phonemics, Foreign Countries
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Russak, Susie; Saiegh-Haddad, Elinor – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2011
The present study examined cross-linguistic relationships between phonological awareness in L1 (Hebrew) and L2 (English) among normal (N = 30) and reading disabled (N = 30) Hebrew native speaking college students. Further, it tested the effect of two factors: the lexical status of the stimulus word (real word vs. pseudoword) and the linguistic…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Phonemes, Phonology, Phonological Awareness
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Rahbari, Noriyeh; Senechal, Monique; Arab-Moghaddam, Narges – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2007
The main objective of the present study was to examine the contribution of phonological and orthographic skills to Persian reading and spelling. The Persian language is of interest because it has very consistent grapheme-to-phoneme correspondences, but somewhat inconsistent phoneme-to-grapheme correspondences. Reading, spelling, phonological, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages, Grade 2, Monolingualism
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Duncan, Lynne G.; Johnston, Rhona S. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1999
Examines phonological awareness at the level of phonemes and rhyme and relates this to nonword naming ability. Finds that phoneme awareness correlated significantly with poor readers' word and nonword reading ability, whereas rhyming skill did not. Concludes that phoneme awareness may be more important than rhyming skill in understanding reading…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Elementary Education, Individual Differences, Phonemes
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Alarcon, Maricela; And Others – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1994
Finds that parent-offspring resemblance in families of reading-disabled probands does not differ substantially from that in families of controls; and correlations and regressions for monozygotic twins are greater than those for dizygotic twins, suggesting that individual differences in reading achievement are due in part to heritable influences.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Family (Sociological Unit), Heredity, Individual Differences
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Bowers, Patricia Greig; Wolf, Maryanne – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1993
Reviews several lines of convergent research to discuss the relationship between developmental dyslexia and slow symbol naming speed. Describes the interactive development of orthographic and phonological codes, and methodological problems leading to underestimation of the importance of individual differences. Argues that an understanding of…
Descriptors: Adults, Dyslexia, Elementary Education, Individual Differences
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Olson, R. K.; And Others – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1991
Subjects measures of word recognition, phonological coding, and orthographic coding obtained from analyses of identical and fraternal twins to multivariate genetic analysis. Finds that genetic influences on individual differences in word recognition were more strongly related to genetic variance in phonological coding than in orthographic coding.…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Elementary Education, Factor Analysis, Genetics
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Harlaar, Nicole; Dale, Philip S.; Plomin, Robert – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2006
In a companion paper, word recognition skills assessed by telephone using the Test of Word Reading Efficiency (TOWRE) were found to correlate highly with National Curriculum (NC) teacher-assessed reading ability in 7-year-old twins. This study examined the genetic and environmental origins of this high correlation. TOWRE and NC scores were both…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Genetics, Word Recognition, Individual Differences
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Lesaux, Nonie K.; Pearson, M. Rufina; Siegel, Linda S. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2006
This study examined the effects of extra time on the reading comprehension performance of a heterogeneous group of adults with reading disabilities. Sixty-four adults participated. A clinic that assesses learning disabilities identified 22 as reading disabled, and 42 as normal readers. The 64 adults took a reading comprehension test under both…
Descriptors: Timed Tests, Reading Tests, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties